Horseman
by mortuusars
With Horseman, a copper horn bound to a horse can summon that horse from anywhere in the world, and the mod also adds several riding changes.
What it does
A horse is bound to a horn sound with Sneak and Use. Once bound, tooting the horn calls the horse to the player. Different players can bind different horses to the same sound, because the horse recognizes who plays the horn. A horse already bound to one player cannot be bound to another. Losing the horn does not lose the binding, since the horse is tied to the sound and a new horn with the same instrument can call it.
The mod changes how ridden horses move and handle terrain. Horses can swim when the rider presses jump in water, with camels, skeleton horses and zombie horses excluded by default through the horseman:cannot_swim entity tag. Leaf collision is reduced for forest travel, step height rises by 10 percent, and descending blocks causes less slowdown. Mining speed while mounted no longer takes the usual penalty. Saddled horses wander only within a set radius of where their owner left them. The mod requires Fabric API on Fabric and Forge Config API Port on Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and it is published for 1.20.1 – 26.3 under the MIT License, which is open source. Client and server both need it.
Key features
Horn summoning
A copper horn bound to a horse calls it from any location in the world.
Per-player horse binding
Each horse is bound to one owner, and players can share a horn sound while calling different horses.
Horse swimming
Ridden horses swim when the rider presses jump in water, with exceptions set by an entity tag.
Leash to fences
A mounted player clicks a fence to leash the horse, using a lead kept in a special slot in the horse inventory.
Smoother riding
Step height, jump distance, slowdown on descent and camera rotation while stopped are all adjusted for riding.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Use cases
Long travel across terrain
Leaf collision, step height and swimming make routes through forests and water less interrupted.
Shared servers
Players on one server can each own horses that answer to the same horn sound.
Who it’s for: Players who ride horses through survival worlds and server owners who want horses to behave more consistently for their players.
Questions
Does Horseman need Fabric API on every loader?
Do both the server and players need Horseman?
Can a horse be bound to two players at once?
In the catalog
Horseman is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
When mounted, clicking on a fence will leash the horse to it. Requires Lead in the special slot that's added to horse inventory. When the leash is removed or broken - Lead will not drop and will remain in the slot.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/horseman
- Owner
- mortuusars
- Published
- 2024-08-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-05
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
